Casey Schmitt
@csschmitt.bsky.social
Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
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The Predatory Sea – Penn Press
A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave ...
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If you've always wanted to read about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century smuggling, piracy, and human trafficking in the Caribbean AND you love a good deal, use:
PENN-CSCHMITT30 for 30% off. 🗃️
www.pennpress.org/978151282814...
It's here! The most wonderful time of year!
"I am learning so much from this year’s catalog about how to overthink coffee. My coffeepot doesn’t have a gooseneck-style spout. My coffeemaker certainly doesn’t include a stopwatch for bloom times..."
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"I am learning so much from this year’s catalog about how to overthink coffee. My coffeepot doesn’t have a gooseneck-style spout. My coffeemaker certainly doesn’t include a stopwatch for bloom times..."
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The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector
[Opens front door while holding a toy corgi in one arm] Merry Christmas! Oh my God, you made it! I thought you might be stuck at the airport for weeks! Well, because it’s such madness out there. Piper...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's here! The most wonderful time of year!
"I am learning so much from this year’s catalog about how to overthink coffee. My coffeepot doesn’t have a gooseneck-style spout. My coffeemaker certainly doesn’t include a stopwatch for bloom times..."
defector.com/the-2025-hat...
"I am learning so much from this year’s catalog about how to overthink coffee. My coffeepot doesn’t have a gooseneck-style spout. My coffeemaker certainly doesn’t include a stopwatch for bloom times..."
defector.com/the-2025-hat...
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Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
Such a joy to talk about The Predatory Sea with Karin Wulf as part of the JCB Reads series! 🗃️
youtu.be/Z6VZAD6BBuU?...
youtu.be/Z6VZAD6BBuU?...
JCB Reads 2025 with Casey Schmitt
YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library
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December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Such a joy to talk about The Predatory Sea with Karin Wulf as part of the JCB Reads series! 🗃️
youtu.be/Z6VZAD6BBuU?...
youtu.be/Z6VZAD6BBuU?...
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Do you do archival research? Do you know anyone who does? Our travel grant is a very easy application and we give $1,500 to come do research onsite in Storrs, CT. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Do you do archival research? Do you know anyone who does? Our travel grant is a very easy application and we give $1,500 to come do research onsite in Storrs, CT. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
Hey historians! How many of you have published something with the help of a literary agent? If you have, what did you think of the process? 🗃️
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Hey historians! How many of you have published something with the help of a literary agent? If you have, what did you think of the process? 🗃️
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Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
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Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads.
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads.
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
Hey historians! If you need something to help you recover from all of the holiday gluttony tomorrow, I will be chatting about my new book with the incomparable Karin Wulf on Monday 12/1 at noon! 🗃️
jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
JCB Reads: Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea. Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean | John Carter Brown Library
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November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Hey historians! If you need something to help you recover from all of the holiday gluttony tomorrow, I will be chatting about my new book with the incomparable Karin Wulf on Monday 12/1 at noon! 🗃️
jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
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Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!
The forum on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley comes from an important discussion at the AHA and will be excellent for teaching and discussing this excellent book!
The award-winning journal Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 78 is now available, read it online: buff.ly/xTwnWC6
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November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The forum on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley comes from an important discussion at the AHA and will be excellent for teaching and discussing this excellent book!
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Curious about university press publishing? Want to publish with a university press? #AskUP! University press professionals answer frequently asked publishing questions here: https://bit.ly/3milXtt
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Curious about university press publishing? Want to publish with a university press? #AskUP! University press professionals answer frequently asked publishing questions here: https://bit.ly/3milXtt
This is a really amazing piece worth reading from a grad school friend and director of publications at the AHA, @lmansley.bsky.social!
When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. 🗃️
A Dream Realized – AHA
Leaving academia doesn’t mean leaving behind disciplinary dreams.
www.historians.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a really amazing piece worth reading from a grad school friend and director of publications at the AHA, @lmansley.bsky.social!
Reposted by Casey Schmitt
When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. 🗃️
A Dream Realized – AHA
Leaving academia doesn’t mean leaving behind disciplinary dreams.
www.historians.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. 🗃️
Grading essays in the age of AI is truly gutting. Before you ask, yes, I did all the recommended things to prevent AI use and yet...
What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Grading essays in the age of AI is truly gutting. Before you ask, yes, I did all the recommended things to prevent AI use and yet...
What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
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Spread the word to your colleagues! 2 weeks left to send in your applications.
🚨Tenure track job. Final alert🚨
The @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu history department is accepting applications for the position of assistant professor of the history of South Asia. Deadline is NOVEMBER 15.
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The @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu history department is accepting applications for the position of assistant professor of the history of South Asia. Deadline is NOVEMBER 15.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
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November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Spread the word to your colleagues! 2 weeks left to send in your applications.
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"The coursework and ideas at the heart of a humanities-based education provides leaders with the raw materials we use under pressure: judgment, ethics, story, listening, resilience and the craft of clear communication." bit.ly/4nsS7ko
Donald Thompson: The humanities are a CEO’s edge
The humanities don’t slow business down. Critical thinking and broad contextual habits actually make the work world smarter, fairer and faster.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"The coursework and ideas at the heart of a humanities-based education provides leaders with the raw materials we use under pressure: judgment, ethics, story, listening, resilience and the craft of clear communication." bit.ly/4nsS7ko
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
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supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
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October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Applications for FEEGI's April 2026 at Rutgers University are due in two days, on 10/30! Don't sleep on the deadline. See you in the spring! @csschmitt.bsky.social #earlymodern #EarlyAmerica #historians
Folks, applications for FEEGI's April 2026 conference at Rutgers are due 10/30! And for people interested in attending the PEAES workshop immediately beforehand (we're teaming up this time around), apps are due TODAY, 10/17! librarycompany.org/academic-pro... #earlymodern #earlyAmerica #historians
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Applications for FEEGI's April 2026 at Rutgers University are due in two days, on 10/30! Don't sleep on the deadline. See you in the spring! @csschmitt.bsky.social #earlymodern #EarlyAmerica #historians
I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea!
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea!
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
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Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting – French Colonial Historical Society
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September 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! 🗃️
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Fireside Chat- The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
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October 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! 🗃️
librarycompany.org/events/fires...
librarycompany.org/events/fires...
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Upcoming Fireside Chats – The Library Company of Philadelphia
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October 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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